Where the seller at the time of contracting has reason to know any particular purpose for which the goods are required and that the buyer is relying on the seller's skill or judgment to select or furnish suitable goods, there is unless excluded or modified under the next section an implied warranty that the goods shall be fit for such purpose. With respect to the sale of cattle, hogs, sheep, and horses, there shall be no implied warranty that the cattle, hogs, sheep, and horses are free from disease.
Tenn. Code Ann. § 47-2-315
Implied warranty — Fitness for particular purpose — Exception for certain livestock
Known as the Uniform Commercial Code
The act spans §§ 47-1-101 to 47-9-809 (578 sections).
Applied in 6 court decisions — leading case Bill Brown Construction Co. v. Glens Falls Insurance Co. (1991)
Most recently applied in In re Rust-Oleum Restore Marketing, Sales Practices & Products Liability Litigation (January 2016)
Acts 1963, ch. 81, § 1 (2-315); 1980, ch. 723, § 1.
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Current official text: Tennessee Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Tennessee statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.